The “First’s”
This is the first woman to go to space.
A) Valentina Tereshkova
B) Mae Jemison
C) Sally Ride
D) Svetlana Savitskaya
A) Valentina Tereshkova
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her contribution to the understanding of radiation.
Marie Curie
Who was the first scientist to research chimpanzees?
Jane Goodall
What bio chemist won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene-editing tool that allows scientists to rewrite DNA.
A) Shirin Ebadi
B) Jamie Cate
C) Nadia Murad
D) Jennifer Doudna
D) Jennifer Doudna
About what percentage of all nobel prize winners have been female?
A) 75.8%
B) 24.2%
C) 50%
D) 6.7%
D) 6.7% (approximately),total of 965 individual winners with some winning multiple times, to a total of 976 out of 65 female winners).
She was the first woman to fly across the world.
A) Nadia Murad
B) Amelia Earhart
C) Jerrie Mock
D) Harriet Quimby
C) Jerrie Mock
Who is the only woman to have received, by herself (unshared), a Nobel Prize for Medicine?
A) Edith Clarke
B) Emily Warren Roebling
C) Barbara McClintock
D) Hedy Lamarr
C) Barbara McClintock (1983) for her discoveries in genetics about “jumping genes" or transposable elements.
Who is known as the inventor of the first compiler? (A compiler is a program that translates programming code to machine language). Her initials are G.H.
Grace Hopper
Who won the nobel prize for physics in 2023?
A) Tu Youyou
B) Anne L'Huillier
C) Maryam Mirzakhani
D) Lynn Margulis
B) Anne L'Huillier (along with her two other co-researchers).
Approximately how many females are in STEM fields according to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (www.eeoc.gov)?
A) 52.7%
B) 78.1%
C) 29.29%
D) 15.5%
C) 29.29%
This is the first woman to ever walk on the moon.
No woman has yet to walk on the moon before.
Who is the founder of Girls Who Code?
A) Ada Lovelace
B) Reshma Saujani
C) Carol Shaw
D) Tracy Chou
B) Reshma Saujani
What early mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher was killed in 415 CE?
A) Arete of Cyrene
B) Aspasia
C) Soispatra
D) Hypatia
D) Hypatia
Who was the NASA 'human computer' that recently passed away at the age 101?
A) Katherine Johnson
B) Peggy Whitson
C) Jennifer Doudna
D) Nina Tandon
A) Katherine Johnson
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges what percentage of women are doctors?
A) 49.7%
B) 57%
C) 66.5%
D) 38%
D) 38%
She was the first Black female doctor in America?
A) Mae Jemison
B) Rebecca Crumpler
C) Rebecca J. Cole
D) Elizabeth Blackwell
B) Rebecca Crumpler
Who is credited with creating the term "Software Engineering" while developing the software for the on-board systems of the Apollo spacecraft?
A) Rachel Louise Carson
B) Chien-Shiung Wu
C) Margaret Hamilton
D) Alice Ball
C) Margaret Hamilton
Who is the only woman in history to win two Nobel Prizes?
A) Maria Goeppert Mayer
B) Emily Greene Balch
C) Marie Curie
D) Mother Teresa
C) Marie Curie (Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911).
This is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, the first company in the world to use a patient’s stem cell to grow human bone that can be used to repair bone defects.
A) Maryam Mirzakhani
B) Katrin Amunts
C) Katherine Freese
D) Nina Tandon
D) Nina Tandon
What percentage of Fortune 500 CEO’s are woman?
A) 10.4%
B) 17%
C) 5.66%
D) 48.4%
A) 10.4%
Fortune 500: Women CEOs Hold Steady at 10.4%: Women’s representation in the Fortune 500 remains at 10.4%, with 52 women CEOs in 2024, up from 41 in 2021. Notable new appointments include Joanna Geraghty at JetBlue, the first woman to lead a major U.S. airline.
She was the first woman US Surgeon General.
A) Dr. Alexa Canady
B) Dr. Antonia Novello
C) Virginia Apgar
D) Patricia Bath
B) Dr. Antonia Novello (served 1990-1993), and was also the first Hispanic to hold this position.
Which famous physicist helped with the Manhattan Project and helped determine the process for separating uranium into isotopes?
A) Erminnie A. Smith
B) Marie Curie
C) Barbara McClintock
D) Chien-Shiung Wu
D) Chien-Shiung Wu worked on helping with the Manhattan project, beta decay research, and conducted the Wu experiment in 1956 (which helped challenge a fundamental physics principle). She later went on to receive multiple accolades and positions for her contributions such as the National Medal of Science (1975).
Which scientist discovered discovered the enzyme 'Cytochrome C' which plays an essential role in the electron transport chain?
A) Kamala Sohonie
B) Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
C) Rita Levi-Montalcini
D) Jennifer Doudna
A) Kamala Sohonie
In 2014 this professor at Stanford University was on of the only four people to receive a Fields Medal for her work in mathematics.
A) Katrin Amunts
B) Maryam Mirzakhani
C) Karen King
D) Jennifer Eberhardt
B) Maryam Mirzakhani
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization what percent of women make up researchers globally?
A) 57.8%
B) 45.7%
C) 33.3%
D) 29%
C) 33.3%
Globally, women make up 33.3% of researchers (in head counts), according to data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics for 107 countries covering the years 2015–2018.